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NO{sub 2} and CO nonattainment areas: a pragmatic approach to source reduction assessment

Abstract

Many Italian large conurbations have CO and NO{sub 2} air quality standards exceeded and, consequently, require control enforcement plans to attain and maintain regulations not respected. In planning the interventions to be undertaken a fundamental issue is represented by the relationships between active emission sources and air quality, commonly described through mathematical models for evaluating the expected effects of the different reduction scenarios. This approach, relatively feasible for slightly or non reactive pollutants like CO, becomes not as easy to be applied for secondary pollutants, like NO{sub 2}, mainly for the complex photo chemical reaction systems involved in their atmospheric presence and the consequent modeling difficulties related either to the description of the system itself than to the detail in input data required. A practicable alternative in this framework relies in the utilization of statistical models for deriving, through the empirical description of the relationships between the parameters of interest, the reduction levels required for complying with the standards. Following an approach already applied with useful results to the same area, present work reports on the development and application to Milan urban area of statistical models for describing the relationships between CO and NO{sub x} annual concentration averages and the  More>>
Authors:
Cernuschi, S; Giugliano, M; Marzolo, F [1] 
  1. D.I.I.A.R. - Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy). Environmental Section
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1995
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
NEI-FI-290-Vol.3; CONF-9505322-Vol.3
Reference Number:
SCA: 540120; PA: FI-96:003616; EDB-96:137121; SN: 96001645605
Resource Relation:
Conference: 10. world clean air congress, Espoo (Finland), 28 May - 2 Jun 1995; Other Information: DN: Sponsored by the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (UIAPPA) and hosted by the Finnish Air Pollution Prevention Society (FAPPS); PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 10th world clean air congress. Impacts and management; Kaemaeri, J.; Tolvanen, M.; Anttila, P.; Salonen, R.O. [eds.]; PB: 632 p.
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AIR QUALITY; URBAN AREAS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; ITALY; STATISTICAL MODELS
OSTI ID:
283519
Research Organizations:
Finnish Air Pollution Prevention Society, Helsinki (Finland)
Country of Origin:
Finland
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE96777170; ISBN 952-90-6474-8; TRN: FI9603616
Availability:
OSTI as DE96777170
Submitting Site:
FI
Size:
pp. [4]
Announcement Date:
Sep 20, 1996

Citation Formats

Cernuschi, S, Giugliano, M, and Marzolo, F. NO{sub 2} and CO nonattainment areas: a pragmatic approach to source reduction assessment. Finland: N. p., 1995. Web.
Cernuschi, S, Giugliano, M, & Marzolo, F. NO{sub 2} and CO nonattainment areas: a pragmatic approach to source reduction assessment. Finland.
Cernuschi, S, Giugliano, M, and Marzolo, F. 1995. "NO{sub 2} and CO nonattainment areas: a pragmatic approach to source reduction assessment." Finland.
@misc{etde_283519,
title = {NO{sub 2} and CO nonattainment areas: a pragmatic approach to source reduction assessment}
author = {Cernuschi, S, Giugliano, M, and Marzolo, F}
abstractNote = {Many Italian large conurbations have CO and NO{sub 2} air quality standards exceeded and, consequently, require control enforcement plans to attain and maintain regulations not respected. In planning the interventions to be undertaken a fundamental issue is represented by the relationships between active emission sources and air quality, commonly described through mathematical models for evaluating the expected effects of the different reduction scenarios. This approach, relatively feasible for slightly or non reactive pollutants like CO, becomes not as easy to be applied for secondary pollutants, like NO{sub 2}, mainly for the complex photo chemical reaction systems involved in their atmospheric presence and the consequent modeling difficulties related either to the description of the system itself than to the detail in input data required. A practicable alternative in this framework relies in the utilization of statistical models for deriving, through the empirical description of the relationships between the parameters of interest, the reduction levels required for complying with the standards. Following an approach already applied with useful results to the same area, present work reports on the development and application to Milan urban area of statistical models for describing the relationships between CO and NO{sub x} annual concentration averages and the corresponding air quality standard parameters (number of standard exceedances for CO and 98th percentile of hourly concentrations for NO{sub 2}). The models are utilised upstream to simple roll-back models for the assessment of the reduction in emissions strength required for attaining air quality standards for the area. (author)}
place = {Finland}
year = {1995}
month = {Dec}
}